Netacea

Manchester, UK
2018
  |  By Alex McConnell
Content scraping is on the rise. While it can benefit your business in some cases, it can also lead to lost revenue, degraded website performance, and content theft. Web scraping is a hot topic in tech news. This trend links to the rise in AI tools, specifically LLMs (large language models), which rely on content to generate their outputs. They scrape content from across the web to train these algorithms. This is a controversial subject with moral, technical, and legal implications.
  |  By Alex McConnell
As a security professional considering a robust bot defense strategy, it’s important to understand the ever-evolving nature of bot threats and the critical need for a scalable, robust solution. Traditionally, businesses rely on agent-based bot management solutions, also known as client-side or front-end detection, by deploying small pieces of software (agents) on customer devices to detect malicious activity. However, these approaches carry significant risks.
  |  By Alex McConnell
At 8:00 on Saturday, 31st August 2024, millions of people were poised to be part of pop culture history. Four days earlier, on 27th August, seminal Britpop heavyweights Oasis shocked the music world by finally confirming their long-awaited reunion. The reconciliation of brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher sent fans into a frenzy. For millions worldwide, it was essential to get tickets to one of the 17 announced gigs. The demand was enormous.
  |  By Threat Research Team
Welcome back to the next blog in our Evolution of Scalping series. During our last blog we covered the landmark case that exposed the power of automated purchasing – Wiseguy Tickets. We detailed their operation and their use of bots, which allowed them to snatch up huge volumes of available tickets for high-demand events.
  |  By Threat Research Team
Welcome back to our Evolution of Scalper Bots series. In part one, the Origins of Scalping, we started our journey through scalping’s long history. We saw that it is far from a new concept: people have been reselling high-demand items for centuries, from as far back as 325 BCE! We’ll continue our journey at the turn of the 21st Century. With the advent of online ticketing, a new frontier had just been opened for scalpers, and things would never be the same again.
  |  By Alex McConnell
In recent weeks we’ve covered how criminals use bots to steal accounts across the web. Credential stuffing tools make this easy and quick to do. If you missed it, watch a live demo of the process in this webinar. In this post we’ll look in more detail at what happens next. How do criminals monetize stolen accounts? To answer this, we’ll use the example of streaming services – one of the quickest and easiest commodities for crooks to shift and make a quick profit.
  |  By Alex McConnell
Attackers and bot authors are continually evolving their methods, shifting their focus beyond just websites. With websites often having a reasonable level of protection, malicious actors are increasingly targeting less-protected areas, namely APIs, with their bots. This blog post delves into the evolving threat landscape. We’ll focus on how attackers exploit APIs and IoT devices to launch attacks like credential stuffing, using streaming services as a prime example.
  |  By Threat Research Team
In the evolving landscape of online ticketing and eCommerce, few technological developments have been as controversial as scalper bots. These automated programs, designed to purchase high-demand items faster and more efficiently than humans could, have transformed the way we buy and sell coveted goods online. During this forthcoming blog series, we are going to explore the fascinating evolution of scalper bots. We will trace their origins, developments, and impacts across several distinct eras.
  |  By Alex McConnell
Streaming services are one of the most popular targets for cybercriminals. Using automated bots, attackers steal millions of streaming accounts each month. Adversaries quickly sell these via illegal marketplaces to make massive profits. Although any streaming service is vulnerable to account takeover and credential stuffing attacks, there are additional risks and damages when live event streaming is on offer.
  |  By Threat Research Team
In part one of our “Follow the Crypto” series, we highlighted the growing need for cryptocurrency investigations in the fight against fraud. We discussed the hurdles that investigations face, from the anonymous nature of transactions to the complexity of analyzing blockchain data, but also noted some famous successful investigations.
  |  By Netacea
He's why Netacea was designed to never need client-side technology, offering a more secure option for bot management.
  |  By Netacea
Learn more about Netacea Threat Intel Feeds, including how our customers use them to harden existing defenses, from Netacea CTO & co-founder Andy Still. This video explains how Netacea ensures the accuracy of its threat intelligence, the methods of data distribution, and the practical uses of Threat Intel Feeds in blocking malicious traffic and aiding in decision-making processes.
  |  By Netacea
Netacea bot experts discuss the challenges around the Oasis reunion tour ticket sales, focusing on the issues caused by bots and scalping in high-demand events.
  |  By Netacea
This webinar introduces Netacea Threat Intel Feeds—a tool to harden your defenses against automated attacks using real-world threat data. Join James Middleton, Andy Still, and Cyril Noel-Tagoe as they explore how Netacea processes trillions of requests daily, enabling Threat Intel Feeds to identify and stop attack traffic in real-time, so you can squeeze more value out of your existing edge defenses.
  |  By Netacea
Netacea bot experts discuss the challenges around the Oasis reunion tour ticket sales, focusing on the issues caused by bots and scalping in high-demand events. The discussion explores the technical difficulties of managing ticket sales, the tactics used by bot operators to secure tickets, and the broader implications for the industry. The team also discuss why current methods to prevent bot activity often fail and why a multi-pronged strategy combining real-time detection, post-transaction analysis, and clamping down on secondary markets is critical.
  |  By Netacea
Netacea CISO Andrew Ash welcomes two special guests to the podcast this month to talk about AI adoption and managing third party risk: Thomas Ballin (CTO, Cytix) and Haydn Brooks (CEO, Risk Ledger).
  |  By Netacea
To start this month’s episode, we once again weigh in on AI – this time considering the privacy implications when feeding prompts into generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard. We’ll discuss whether it’s safe to share company IP or your own personal information into such tools, before hearing how we approach this at Netacea from Principal Software Engineer John Beech.
  |  By Netacea
This month’s episode takes off with a journey into the controversial world of skiplagging, also known as hidden city flying. Airlines and holiday businesses are taking legal action against passengers and websites like Skiplagged that exploit pricing loopholes, leaving empty seats on the second leg of multi-stop itineraries. But with scraper bots at the root of the issue, is there a technical solution to limit the practice?
  |  By Netacea
This month we begin by examining the 2023 National Risk Register, a public version of the National Security Risk Assessment, which assesses the most serious risks to lives, health, society, critical infrastructure, economy and sovereignty. Cyber-attacks on infrastructure are listed as moderate impact – Our panel discusses how businesses can use the information within the report to prepare for attacks and keep our critical infrastructure as secure as possible.
  |  By Netacea
In this month’s episode, we start by focusing on the real-world impact of bots (scripts used to automate tasks and exploit business logic). In the UK, bots are being used to book up every available driving test before reselling them for profit; meanwhile in the US, gig workers delivering groceries are losing out to bots that hoard the most profitable delivery jobs. Our panel explains how this happens and discusses what can be done to stop it.
  |  By Netacea
In 2019 we saw more credential stuffing, sniper and scraper bot attacks targeting websites, mobile apps and APIs alike. The shift in attack vectors and scale of attacks highlights an urgent need for a sophisticated solution that protects businesses and customers from the growing malicious bot threat. Understanding the intent of bad bots vs. humans or good bots is vital as all industries face new challenges in acquiring the necessary visibility of their traffic, and subsequent analysis required for rapid and effective attack response that doesn't sacrifice the user experience.
  |  By Netacea
Are you seeing the full picture when it comes to web and application security? Without fast and accurate data at your fingertips from the best bot management, it's increasingly difficult to differentiate human from automated bot traffic on your web-facing applications. Credential stuffing, account fraud and scraping attacks are a multi-billion-dollar business¹, with the scope for earning made increasingly simple by the vast number of internet users, availability of login credentials and the sheer volume of connected devices.
  |  By Netacea
The second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) is a data-driven legislation introduced by the European Union (EU) in 2015, with which all payment service providers (PSPs) throughout the EU and beyond must comply. PSD2 expands the scope of 2007's PSD, a directive implemented to make payments across borders as easy, secure and inexpensive as domestic payments. However, a short eight years later, innovations in technology and the prevalence of fintech have created new challenges for the payments industry to address.
  |  By Netacea
Web traffic is made up of human and non-human visitors, but not all these sources are safe. Sophisticated bot traffic is on the rise and it is becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate the criminal from real customers. Download your free copy of 'The Managing and Mitigating Bots' Guide and learn about.
  |  By Netacea
In 2017 Black Friday was the single largest cause of web traffic peaks and website outages in the retail industry. Even a 1-second delay in load time can result in a 7% loss in conversions.

Netacea provides a revolutionary bot management solution that protects websites, mobile apps and APIs from malicious attacks such as scraping, credential stuffing and account takeover.

Our Intent Analytics™ engine, powered by machine learning, quickly and accurately distinguishes bots from humans to protect websites, mobile apps and APIs from automated threats while prioritising genuine users. Actionable intelligence with data-rich visualisations empowers you to make informed decisions about your traffic.

We Prevent Sophisticated Automated Threats:

  • Account Takeover: Stop account takeover by identifying account-based attacks.
  • Credential Stuffing: Prevent data breaches and protect your website from credential stuffing attacks.
  • Fake Account Creation: Prevent fake account fraud by identifying bot accounts, fake account creation and mass account registration.
  • Web Scraping: Identify and block web scrapers and scraping attacks made to compromise your website.
  • Ad/Click Fraud: Identify ad fraud to reduce wasted spend and prevent ad bots from illegitimately displaying or accessing ads.
  • Skewed Marketing Analytics: Prevent bots from stealing your marketing budget and skewing your analytics.

A Smarter Approach to Bot Management.